Originally posted by elfmotat
To make a substance illegal is to deny people freedoms - it's saying that you know what's good for somebody better than they do.
Does this mean I think everyone should go out and immediately start smoking meth? Absolutely not; I just think that if you want to you should have the option.
The problem with that is you start to use drugs to one's advantage. You get a girl to start taking heroin or a highly addictive substance, then you can make her do things for you for the heroin.
General Adid in Somalia does this, except it is cot. He can control militias and kill people based on a drug that makes people feel good about themselves. Using this as a parallel, if drugs were legalized things like this could happen in the US.